Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-09
JUSTLY INDIGNANT,
Manager Benefits Wrath Aroused by a
silly Canard IN the Inter Mountain
h Street Railroad Getting Gradually
Into Working Order.

Manager Benefits Wrath Aroused by
silly Canard In the Inter Mountain
The Street Railroad Getting Gradual
Into Working Order.
A very indignant man was Willard Ben
nett, manager of the Butte Street Railway
yesterday evening. The cause of his indie
nation was a paragraph in the Afternoon
paper to the effect that "a street car RAJ
off the track on Lower Arizona street yes
terday. toppled over and shattered som
OF the Windows A representative OF tn
MlNERran against him while he was in thi
the offensive paragraph.
zone of the Inter Mountain men came t,
me this afternoon, said he'd heard thi
happening on Friday and asked me if i
was 80, I told him no such thing had hap
pened and that it was absurd, and here tn,
lie just as if it was So"
"And what foundation had the item
Did the street car run off at all yester
day?"
II can't tell you what mean sneak in
VOAeCA II NClus ID III d
all for it. 1t has simply annoyed me aud
unnecessarily scared timid folks. About 9
dozen people met me coming up street and
they all asked me now true it was. Some
OF them said they were going to take a ride
on the street car tomorrow, but if this was
true they would not, as they didn't want
to run the risk of having bones broken.
It's an outrageous lie, and it it were worth
while I'd make somebody sweat for it,"
D you have as much trouble with the
hoodlums as ever?"
mo. Ny advertisement scared their pa.
rents l expect, and they keep a look outfor
them. l have put an end to a good deal of
the h%oodlumism of the boys along the line,
and l think they understand me o pretty
well. l gave two of them a lesson they
wont forget in a hurry yesterday"
D the cars run off the track at all
now?"
Eyes, and they are bound to do so until
the track is IT. perfect running order. I
have got a force of men especially engaged
to remedy the defects as soon as they show
up. The fange Oh our car wheels ia very
narrow and the least variance of the rail
affects the wheel and let's it off. The ties
are not thoroughly settled into place, and
whenever by constant passage over a weak
spot one end of a tie is depressed more
than the other, however slight. it spreads
the rail sufficiently to let the
wheel down, when we've got to lift
it on again. But wherever a new
defect appears my work gang goes to the
spot and removes the defect. We can't
tell where the defects are until they reveal
themselves in this way, but they will soon
be all remedied."
Cars run off the track every where: that
experience ls unlversal0
20 course it is, and people know it too.
I've had lots of people come and tell me
they never rode on such a smooth piece OF
road rs mine. And you'll find mighty few
in the country with a thirty-pound steel
rail under them like mine. When the road
gets settled there won't be a better in the
country"
"When is the Meaderville extension to be
fi%nished?"
Just as soon as the rails arrive. Six
cars are east of st. Paul now which were
at the same time al one which has
arrived at South Butte"
when do you extend to the western city
limits?"
"I'm going to begin tomorrow on that,
and will have it laid in two or three days.
straight sailing and will be a splendid |
piece Of road when I get it down. BE sure
and contradict that outrageous lie about /
the car overturning. Any one ought to |
know better than to write such rubbish.
Why, tie an impossibiity."